* [TUHS] re: unsigned division in V7's C
@ 2003-01-11 7:32 Dennis Ritchie
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From: Dennis Ritchie @ 2003-01-11 7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Helbig observed
> while wondering how unsigned integer division is implemented in C
> I found a bug in V7: a/b and a%b with b >= 2^15 does not give the expected
> results, if a and b are unsigned int's.
Does
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html#muldiv
suffice to explain the behavior?
Dennis
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